[email protected] formulated on 
Monday :
> [email protected] wrote:
>> BARRY HOLLAND <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> --- I have just been offered a 13k bottle of propane at Fenny Compton 
>>> Marine for £23. Is this a record?
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>> Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange
>>> 
>>> No Steve, 
>>> It's a 13k cylinder of propane! Sorry, couldn't resist it! :-))
>>> In Fire Brigade training school @ Southwark, anyone calling a cylinder a 
>>> 'bottle' had to run up the training tower with the cylinder on their 
>>> shoulder & shout out ''This is a cylinder, not a bottle!'' at the top of 
>>> their voice on each of the thirteen floors-both up & down! Barry
>> Hmm.  Seems to me that the object in question is both a cylinder and a
>> bottle.  
>> OED says:
>> "bottle n, ... metal cylinder for liquefied gas ..."
>
> Care to look up 'wide' and 'broad' while you've got your dictionary open?
>
OOOOOOO >:|

-- 
Brian traveling on Harnser
 http://nbharnser.blogspot.com/





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